Oklahoma’s Sierra Club has become part of a nationwide campaign called “Boot Pruitt,” an effort that includes a petition drive calling for the former Oklahoma Attorney General to resign. Much of the effort focuses on Pruitt’s travel expenses and use of first-class accommodations. “Previously, as Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Scott Pruitt took numerous first class flights …
The conservative political website Hot Air has decided it’s time to compare the travel expenses of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt with those of his predecessors. The website’s reporters did some comparison of the expenses that Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General has run up in his first year in office. While national news organizations have …
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt says how the government has handled the Tar Creek Superfund site is “really unacceptable.” It’s what he said in a roundtable meeting with several reporters from news organizations including the Tulsa World, noting how the site dates back to the early 1980s. “You don’t list a site in the mid-1980s and …
The Yukon School District is the only school system in the state to receive part of $8.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace or retrofit hundreds of older diesel school buses. Yukon’s share of the money totals $200,000 which will help replace 10 buses in the school district’s fleet. The EPA announced …
EPA Czar Scott Pruitt might not be liked by environmentalists and critics of the Trump White House, but he’s supported by conservatives. And even the New York Times paints the former Oklahoma Attorney General as a man with strong political ambitions. Strong enough to maybe make a run for the U.S. Senate or governor in …
More transparency. It’s what Scott Pruitt is promising as head of the EPA, according to a report by Radio Oklahoma Network’s Oklahoma Farm Report. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt addressed over 300 members of the Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, and Alabama Farm Bureaus Wednesday, pledging his commitment to “providing America’s farmers with the transparency and regulatory certainty they …
Led by former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has started the process of undoing the Obama administration’s rules on methane gas emissions. In announcing the recent actions, the EPA said the moves were being made to reduce costs and regulatory “burdens” imposed on the oil and natural gas industry. The …
EPA chief Scott Pruitt faces more scrutiny from Democrats. This time, Delaware Sen. Tom Carper wants to know more about a contract recently won by Pruitt’s head of security, Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta. In a letter fired off to the former Oklahoma Attorney General this week, Carper questioned the security-related $3,000 contract from the EPA. Perrotta, …
The criticism of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s first class travels has caught up with him and he says he will now fly ‘coach’ on his very next flight. It’s what he told CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett in an interview this week after House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy sent him a …
The former Oklahoma banker who had no environmental experience when he was picked by EPA Administrator and friend, Scott Pruitt to manage the agency’s Superfund sites is actually getting some good reviews from environmentalists. Ever since being picked last year, Albert “Kell” Kelly has refused to talk with reporters. “Truth be told, he’s been doing …
